SergeMan

Dad, Gamer, IT Professional, Geek. He/Him

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You are not describing history.

You are describing the American bedtime story about history.

Let me remind you what actually happened on our soil, not in your textbooks.

North Vietnam did not "invade" South Vietnam.

Vietnam was one nation that foreign powers divided on paper and expected us to accept the way a prisoner accepts the shape of his cell.

There is no "North Vietnamese people" and "South Vietnamese people."

There is only one Vietnamese people separated by a imaginary line drawn by outsiders.

You talk about 1954 as if the partition was destiny.

It was not.

The Geneva Accords mandated free and fair elections in 1956, so the Vietnamese could reunify peacefully.

Eisenhower’s own intelligence admitted Hồ Chí Minh would win by 80 percent.

That is why the United States blocked the elections.

That is why your puppet regime was installed.

That is why the country was carved in two to prevent democracy, not defend it.

You call our president Hồ Chí Minh a "brutal scourge."

Your CIA called him "the George Washington of Vietnam."

The only thing dangerous about him was that he wanted a Vietnam not ruled by France, Japan, or America.

But let us talk about the Gulf of Tonkin, since you think "the rest is history."

There was no second attack.

There was no assault on the Turner Joy.

There was only American radar chasing ghosts in a storm, and a White House searching for the excuse it needed to unleash a war it had already decided to fight.

McNamara admitted it.

The NSA declassified the evidence.

Your own navy officers testified the incident never happened.

Yet from that lie came three million Vietnamese dead, eight million tons of bombs, Agent Orange burned into our soil and our DNA, entire provinces turned into moonscapes.

And you still recite this story as if the United States came to rescue us from ourselves.

Let me be very clear:

America did not enter Vietnam to "help" South Vietnam.

America entered Vietnam to prevent the independence of a country that refused to kneel to Western power.

The people who fought the United States were not foreign invaders.

They were farmers defending the same land their ancestors defended for over 2,000 years against the Han, the Tang, the Song, the Mongols, the Ming, the Qing, the French, and the Japanese.

We were not fighting for communism.

We were fighting for Vietnam.

And we won.

That is the part your version always forgets.

You lost a war you cannot psychologically accept losing, so you rewrite it as a morality play where America tried to save a "good" Vietnam from a "bad" one.

There was no good Vietnam and bad Vietnam.

There was only Vietnam

And the empire that tried to break it.

The rest is not history.

The rest is denial.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The House just passed the massive budget bill.

This legislation will gut health care, food assistance, clean energy and more to fund massive tax cuts for the super-rich.

It now goes to Trump's desk.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Investors in UnitedHealth are suing the company — for providing too much care.

They're upset that UnitedHealth got less aggressive in denying care after their CEO was murdered.

And that as a result they're making less money from the health insurance giant. https://t.co/uqXs24ELl2

[SergeMan @SergeMan]

@incsellsthings @CalWomensTennis @DukeWTEN Wow, that's crazy. Thanks for the info.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Daily Reminder: Medicare for All would save $650 billion and 68,000 lives each and every year.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Please understand that this platform is about to become the very least reliable source of information in the aggregate if Trump starts losing tomorrow.

Coup Two requires people to feel "robbed" and Musk is going to go into overdrive making the MAGAs feel that.

[SergeMan @SergeMan]

@sewchaotic @ElieNYC My man, he really didn't come at you like that. Same team.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

So, if you're a conservative young man who is angry about this double standard, I agree with you. It's not fair that you're required to register for the military draft and women aren't. You have every right to be angry about that, but you should be angry at Republicans.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Okay, let's talk about this ridiculous talking point that some conservative men love to use, subsequently betraying their complete ignorance on our military draft.

Claiming the draft is to men like abortion is to women is ludicrous for three big reasons.

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[SergeMan @SergeMan]

@jon_speaks_ It happened in 1916. NWS warned two-three days ago.

[SergeMan @SergeMan]

@timburchett Be the #1 economy in the US, and #5 globally? Like California!? Oh no!

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

The Supreme Court heard and decided Bush v. Gore in THREE DAYS.

THAT was expediting a case of national importance.

The Supreme Court apparently now thinks expediting means THREE MONTHS.

Clearest evidence yet that SCOTUS is corrupt and broken.

[Carolina Basketball @UNC_Basketball]

RJ setting a new career-high in style 🔥 @ariidavis_

📺 ESPN | #WhyNot4

[Tina W @tmwinsett]

Read @ElieNYC, always. In this time we’re living in, THIS is the paragraph. Actually important, as in crucial. THE reason everyone needs to get to the polls, & drag at least one person with you. (& while I’m imploring everyone to vote, PLEASE pay attention to your local election)

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

I don't make the editorial decisions at our papers, but "Russians duped Republicans into using disinformation as a basis for impeaching Biden" should be a 72-point ALL CAPS headline across the country and questions should be asked of Comer, Grassley, et al. as to their complicity

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

If you've been paying attention to US-Israeli-Gaza policy *for years* than you know that the Netanyahu government WANTS Trump to be elected, and has done all it can to prop up the Trump regime. And if you actually care, you know why.

[SergeMan @SergeMan]

@GeoRebekah It was fucked up as a kid too. Yikes. -LateGenXer